>“I physically sat down to work on this album about a year ago,” Chaeyoung tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview in Korean over Zoom. “But overall, it took about two to three years to complete it. The first two years, I was committed to thinking, ‘What do I want to do with this album? What kind of music do I want to make?’ I spent a lot of time getting my ideas together before it was time to execute my decisions. It honestly hasn’t hit me yet that I have a solo album!”
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>Talking about the pensive “BF,” a song that she delivers with sweetness tinged with a little ennui, Chaeyoung mentions that her job means she rarely gets to see friends from when she was younger.
>“I’m basically a homebody and an introvert, so I don’t really reach out to them to hang out,” she says. “I think some of the friends felt upset that I didn’t contact them, and they left. So I just ended up with fewer and fewer friends. But at the same time, the stuffed toys I collect kept increasing. So I just ask myself, ‘Are they my real friends now?’ That’s how this song came about, because I don’t have a lot of friends.”
>When reminded that she has eight very vocal friends, she laughs and nods her head, adding, “True, my bandmates are my friends! I just wanted to reflect on the loneliness that affects everyone at times.”
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Article by Jae-Ha Kim; interview excerpts:
>“I physically sat down to work on this album about a year ago,” Chaeyoung tells Rolling Stone in an exclusive interview in Korean over Zoom. “But overall, it took about two to three years to complete it. The first two years, I was committed to thinking, ‘What do I want to do with this album? What kind of music do I want to make?’ I spent a lot of time getting my ideas together before it was time to execute my decisions. It honestly hasn’t hit me yet that I have a solo album!”
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>Talking about the pensive “BF,” a song that she delivers with sweetness tinged with a little ennui, Chaeyoung mentions that her job means she rarely gets to see friends from when she was younger.
>“I’m basically a homebody and an introvert, so I don’t really reach out to them to hang out,” she says. “I think some of the friends felt upset that I didn’t contact them, and they left. So I just ended up with fewer and fewer friends. But at the same time, the stuffed toys I collect kept increasing. So I just ask myself, ‘Are they my real friends now?’ That’s how this song came about, because I don’t have a lot of friends.”
>When reminded that she has eight very vocal friends, she laughs and nods her head, adding, “True, my bandmates are my friends! I just wanted to reflect on the loneliness that affects everyone at times.”
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